As Academy Award voters mark their ballots, researchers at the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center released a study measuring a movie's power to change the behavior of people who see it. Using an innovative instrument developed by the Lear Center, the study of more than 20,000 people found that those who saw the 2010 Oscar® nominee Food, Inc . had significantly changed their...

Alison Trope’s new book, “Stardust Monuments: The Saving and Selling of Hollywood” explores how Hollywood portrays its history and the tension between preservation and capitalization

Women and girls are scarcely present either on screen or behind the scenes in Academy Award-nominated movies, according to a new USC Annenberg study that analyzed Best Picture Oscar contenders from 1977 to 2010

Communication professor emeritus A. Michael Noll wrote a new book titled Bell Labs Memoirs: Voices of Innovation , which is now available...

By Ryan Gilmour In alumna Nonny de la Peña ’s immersive journalism piece “Hunger in Los Angeles,” the participants experience a dramatic incident at a local food bank, where a man collapses in line while awaiting his turn. The project marks a major push forward in the field of immersion, which the USC School of Cinematic Arts (SCA) has been at the forefront of for years. “Cinema technology...

By Jeremy Rosenberg An overflow crowd of more than 300 people gathered at USC’s Town & Gown on Wednesday evening for back-to-back conversations worthy of the citius, altius, fortius – or, "swifter, higher, stronger" – Olympic motto. The evening's keynote discussion took place between Jacques Rogge and...

An overflow crowd of more than 300 people gathered at USC’s Town & Gown on Wednesday evening for back-to-back conversations worthy of the citius, altius, fortius – or, "swifter, higher, stronger" – Olympic motto.

By Laura Nelson Student Writer It was to be one of the most famous moments in American sports history. But in the heat of the moment, as the clock ran out on the United States-USSR Olympic hockey match, Al Michaels shouted the first thing that came to mind: "Do you believe in miracles? YES!" "People said, 'Did you come up with a line beforehand?'" Michaels, who called the 1980 Olympic...